Latest Brexit Headlines
All the headlines from our Brexit Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Brexit Red Tape Puts Valentine’s Day Thorn in UK Flower Trade
Feb 14 2024 // Giraffe Flowers in Manchester, northern England, is preparing for the annual Valentine’s Day rush but florists fear that Brexit trade barriers will increasingly spell higher costs and delays for their business. The...
Brexit Has Cost UK More Than $178 Billion so far: London Mayor
Jan 12 2024 // Britain’s departure from the European Union has reduced the size of its economy by 6% so far – an annual cost of 140 billion pounds ($178 billion) – London mayor Sadiq Khan said on Thursday, with the...
How Brexit Hobbled Britain’s Race to Space
Jan 2 2024 // Britain’s push to become a “space superpower” is being undermined by political disarray and weak domestic investment, while showing how the nation needs international partners more than ever...
UK Signs Swiss Financial Services Deal, Easing Post-Brexit Access for Insurers, Brokers
Dec 22 2023 // The UK and Switzerland signed an agreement to recognize each other’s laws and regulations in financial services, easing post-Brexit market access for firms including banks, insurers and asset managers. Chancellor of...
UK to Sign Deal Boosting City of London’s Post-Brexit Ties to Switzerland
Dec 20 2023 // The UK and Switzerland will sign an agreement around financial services on Thursday, a post-Brexit accord to deepen ties between their respective financial centers. Chancellor of the Exchequer Jeremy Hunt will visit Bern...
Brexit Backer and Inventor James Dyson Loses Libel Lawsuit Against UK Newspaper
Dec 1 2023 // James Dyson, the billionaire inventor of the bagless vacuum cleaner, lost a libel lawsuit on Friday against a British newspaper publisher over a column that branded him a hypocrite who had “screwed”...
City of London Calls for ‘Big Moves’ to Boost Post-Brexit Finance
Sep 7 2023 // The City of London called in a report on Thursday for a new council which would allow Britain’s financial sector to drive through “big moves” needed to boost the economy by 225 billion pounds ($281...
UK Support to Rejoin EU Passes 50% for 1st Time Since Brexit
Jul 21 2023 // More than half of Britons would vote to rejoin the European Union for the first time since the nation opted to leave the bloc seven years ago, YouGov polling showed. Some 51% of Britons told the polling company that they...
UK’s Post-Brexit Access to EU Financial Markets Still Unclear, EU Official Says
Jul 19 2023 // It is too early to tell if Britain’s financial rules post-Brexit will diverge too far from European Union norms to consider giving it access to the bloc’s markets, a senior EU official said on Tuesday. Paulina...
UK Pension Funds Back Next Phase of Post-Brexit Shakeup in City of London
Jul 11 2023 // Aviva, Legal & General and seven other pension firms intend to invest 50 billion pounds ($64 billion) in unlisted companies by 2030 to help the City of London remain a competitive global finance center after Brexit,...
UK Regulators Urged to Help Keep London Competitive, Using New Post-Brexit Remit
Jun 30 2023 // Britain’s regulators must push ahead with applying their new post-Brexit remit to help keep the country’s financial sector globally competitive, industry officials said on Thursday. After Britain’s...
Britain and EU Sign Post-Brexit Cooperation Pact in Financial Services
Jun 29 2023 // Britain and the European Union signed a long-delayed post-Brexit cooperation pact in financial services on Tuesday, but the rapprochement is unlikely to restore EU access for the City of London anytime soon. The memorandum...
Stellantis Tells UK to Change Brexit Deal or See Car Plants Close
May 17 2023 // British car plants will close with the loss of thousands of jobs unless the Brexit deal is swiftly renegotiated, Stellantis has warned, as Ford added its voice to the latest warning from the auto industry since Britain...
UK Drops Post-Brexit Plan to Scrap Thousands of EU Laws by Year’s End
May 12 2023 // Britain’s bonfire of European Union laws has been reduced to embers. The U.K. government on Wednesday scrapped a plan to remove all remaining EU laws, about 4,000 in all, from British statute books by the end of this...
Britain’s Financial Services Industry Plans Blueprint for Post-Brexit ‘Kickstart’
Mar 21 2023 // Top officials from Britain’s financial sector said on Tuesday they would set out a blueprint later this year to “kickstart” London’s role as a post-Brexit global financial center by 2030. The City...
Post-Brexit Insurance Reform Expected Before December: BoE’s Woods
Feb 21 2023 // The Bank of England sought on Monday to allay fears among insurers that it was dragging its feet over a long-trailed and disputed reform of their capital rules, saying a “very good sense” of the changes would...
UK Government Seeks to Speed Up Post-Brexit Insurance Reforms
Feb 10 2023 // The UK government is in talks to speed the implementation of a flagship insurance reform to release £100 billion ($121 billion) of capital for investment, after months of clashes over the plans and frustration about the...
UK Insurers Fear That Promised Brexit Capital Reforms Will Be Derailed
Jan 23 2023 // Insurers loved the UK government’s long-awaited plans to free up billions of pounds of their capital. But after the celebrations have come fears that regulators could nudge the changes in a more cautious...
UK’s Post-Brexit Financial Services Reforms Fall Short of Promised ‘Big Bang’
Dec 12 2022 // The UK set out a package of financial services reforms that cuts across dozens of areas but fell short of the “Big Bang” that politicians were promising earlier this year and is unlikely to deliver the dramatic...
UK ‘Just Getting Started’ on Post-Brexit Boost to London’s Competitiveness: Minister
Dec 1 2022 // Britain is just at the beginning of post-Brexit efforts to keep London a top global financial center, but deregulation will be selective to ensure high standards are kept, financial services minister Andrew Griffith said...
